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Private Sports Leagues Tear Up School Fields |
Why Should Taxpayers Pay
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| Westwood NJ -- Private non-governmental sports organizations are
invited by school officials to use the recreation fields owned by Westwood
Schools and funded by taxpayers. These private non-governmental sports
leagues do not pay for the upkeep of these school fields. Now, the taxpayer
is being asked to fund the repair of fields torn up by private
non-government sponsored sports leagues. This is both unjust and mindless. It is unjust to ask taxpayers to pay for the upkeep of fields destroyed by private non-government sponsored sports leagues that collect massive amounts of money in fees it charges its members. Why are these private operations given a free ride at taxpayer expense? It is also mindless because this free ride encourages sports leagues to constantly recruit new members to destroy the fields at a faster rate. Since there is no cost to sports leagues in terms of field maintenance, they generate more revenue without concomitant cost. School officials and local government politicos have created an incentive for sports programs to grow at greater and greater cost to the taxpayer – without any cost to sports leagues. I suggest school authorities exert their authority and restrict the use of school sports fields to school students as part of school physical training class. Some may ask what the private sports leagues will do without school property to tear up. As a taxpayer, this is not my concern. My responsibility, as a taxpayer, is to help pay for public education, not private sports leagues. Westwood NJ
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